Hi Gordon,
I think to do this you need the instructions in section 4.5.3 of the docs, "Installing additional and customized Packages".
From this, I suspected that in earlier times it was possible *not* to mix
Yes, I did. This is the chapter which contains the phrase "Unlike earlier versions, to install custom and external packages there is no need for a special resource in the control file." the own packages with the original SuSE once but to have them in a separate repository.
Now, that said I haven't successfully managed to build the new package database and gotten YaST to be able to read it yet but I'm still playing with it.
I did, and it works (well more or less: I always get a warning "output dir: setup/descr/ is not a directory: ignoring" which is a bit mysterious (again :-) ), since the directory is really a directory. But this looks like a minor inconvienience. Best regards Ole -- GMX im TV ... Die Gedanken sind frei ... Schon gesehen? Jetzt Spot online ansehen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/tv-spot